Sailing home
Subtitle: using the wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to navigate life's perils and pitfalls
By: Norman Fischer
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781556439964
Subjects: Religious life; Zen Buddhism
Other titles: Using the wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to navigate life's perils and pitfalls
Description: Uses the lessons of Homer's poem about the struggles of an imperfect man trying to reach home along with anecdotes and spiritual insights from the author's own life to illuminate the search for purpose and greater meaning in life felt by many.
Notes: Originally published: Hardcover ed. New York, N.Y. : Free Press, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Stting forth. The sea of stories; title: The paradox of return; title: Waiting - Speak your grief; title: False stories; title: Leaving home; title: A mentor's path to enlightenment; title: Practice with the body; title: Disaster. Working with disaster, pleasure, and time; title: The lotus eaters : remembering to practice; title: Being nobody; title: Fatigue; title: Circe, or, desire; title: The land of the dead; title: The siren call; title: Impossible choices : Scylla and Charybdis; title: Return. Sleep; title: Reveal yourself; title: Love's risk; title: On the threshold; title: Laertes, or Forgiveness; title: Peace.